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Airstream is an American brand of travel trailer easily recognized by the distinctive shape of its rounded and polished aluminum coachwork. This body shape dates back to the 1930s and is based on the Bowlus Road Chief, an earlier model of the all-aluminum travel trailer.
Thor Industries, Inc. is an American manufacturer of recreational vehicles (RVs). The company sells towable and motorized RVs through its subsidiaries brands including Airstream, Heartland RV, Jayco, Livin Lite RV, and others. The company's headquarters is in Elkhart, Indiana.
When Wally Byam opened the first Airstream factory in California, there were fewer than 50 trailer manufacturers registered for business. In the next five years, demand for the trailer lifestyle exploded and the industry followed suit – by 1937, there were around 400 manufacturers competing for customers.
22 paź 2020 · After generating interest from neighbors and friends who wanted him to build them their own travel trailer, Byam opened the first Airstream factory in Culver City, California in 1931. The first Airstream models didn’t include that distinct silver bullet-style.
11 lip 2023 · Born in the backyard of California inventor Wally Byam in 1929, the Streamline Moderne –style trailer, with its signature rounded dome, has become an emblem of the open road and 20th-century style, so much so that Airstream motels, where you can spend the night in a refurbished trailer, have popped up in recent years everywhere from Joshua Tree ...
Airstream Travel Trailer History. 1936-Present. Built in Jackson Center, Ohio and Los Angeles, California. Wally Byam, airstream’s founder, was practically born a traveler. As a young child he traveled extensively with his grandfather, who led a mule train in Baker, Oregon.
From a 1956 trip that saw travelers ditch trailers for gondolas in Venice to a Byam-led voyage that arrived in Cairo in 1960, stories with vivid photo spreads of gleaming, American-made...
